Every American will regard you as insane, confused, or joking. If you do convince them you're authentic, they'll instantly start talking like they know more about the subject than you do and they can convince you to change in a few sentences. Except they're just going to say 100 million deaths, Venezuela, Stalin bad, China bad, equally distributed poverty, doesn't work , human nature. Some combination of that stuff and they'll think you've never heard any of it or you'll have no response.
If you're still a communist after they say their stuff they'll call you brainwashed and dismiss you entirely, possibly forgetting you exist if they can avoid you.
I would be treated better by my coworkers if I were suspected of beating my wife than if I were suspected of being a communist. I know this because at my last job I was fired shortly after that got out while an old coworker, who was convicted on domestic violence charges a few years ago, just got promoted.
In my country egypt (who also had an extensive red scare campaign) you would basically become a social pariah
Political literacy is so bad that people think communism = anti islam, atheist, russia, everyone poor, authoritarian, dictatorship, oligarchy.
On April 15, 1984, all nine defendants were acquitted. The jury rejected the government's argument that the defendants were motivated in the shootings by racial hatred. The CWP believed that the indictment was drawn too narrowly, giving the defense an opportunity to argue that political opposition to Communism and patriotic fervor, rather than racial motivations, prompted the confrontation. Neither trial "investigated the actions of Federal agents or the Greensboro police."
Very much depends but usually it’s bad. I thankfully exist in a bubble between work and friends that “Voted for Bernie but is sympathetic to libertarians” is pretty much the right wing extreme, so even when I tell coworkers and classmates I’m a communist the answers vary from “Oh hey me too!” to “I don’t know much about that but it’s very interesting!”
I do it, but I'm a big :lmayo: guy so I'm a lot more likely to get into arguments and a lot less likely to be attacked by fashos. I also have a :gun-hubris: in case they come to my house.
It varies a lot depending on who you're talking to. Obviously AmeriKKKans' brains are very warped and propagandized, and most aren't going to react well to it, but that's far from universal. There was a poll a few years ago that said like 30-something percent of Millennials support communism, for example. And the most recent Pew poll of Zoomers that I read showed that a majority are both opposed to capitalism and support socialism. Now what that really constitutes is going to vary, but IME people tend to be more receptive than a lot of people here are assuming or have experienced themselves. Demographics are important; age, class, and marginalization are each factors that influence attitudes towards radical politics. I don't generally bother with white, well-off boomer petty bourg, for example, and so I get a lot more cynicism or apathy than hostility.
I try to suss out how receptive someone might be before I decide how/whether to address anything political. Although I almost always start with "socialism" and only say "communism" down the line when they're already partly on board.
I just say I'm a communist , is it that bad in america?
Every American will regard you as insane, confused, or joking. If you do convince them you're authentic, they'll instantly start talking like they know more about the subject than you do and they can convince you to change in a few sentences. Except they're just going to say 100 million deaths, Venezuela, Stalin bad, China bad, equally distributed poverty, doesn't work , human nature. Some combination of that stuff and they'll think you've never heard any of it or you'll have no response.
If you're still a communist after they say their stuff they'll call you brainwashed and dismiss you entirely, possibly forgetting you exist if they can avoid you.
Depends on the where and to who you say it but most at least would dismiss you as atleast insane to say that.
I would be treated better by my coworkers if I were suspected of beating my wife than if I were suspected of being a communist. I know this because at my last job I was fired shortly after that got out while an old coworker, who was convicted on domestic violence charges a few years ago, just got promoted.
:joker-amerikkklap:
In my country egypt (who also had an extensive red scare campaign) you would basically become a social pariah Political literacy is so bad that people think communism = anti islam, atheist, russia, everyone poor, authoritarian, dictatorship, oligarchy.
illegal
i'm being a little tongue in cheek, but iirc party membership is still illegal by a 1954 statute
and if you are murdered in the street for being a communist your killers will walk
Ironically, Americans were put you in metaphorical :gulag: for being communist
If you’re a good enough communist you’ll be put in a literal gulag or more likely just be shot
It's the worst thing in america. Everything can be forgiven for the right price, except only killing a cop and being a commie.
Very much depends but usually it’s bad. I thankfully exist in a bubble between work and friends that “Voted for Bernie but is sympathetic to libertarians” is pretty much the right wing extreme, so even when I tell coworkers and classmates I’m a communist the answers vary from “Oh hey me too!” to “I don’t know much about that but it’s very interesting!”
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I do it, but I'm a big :lmayo: guy so I'm a lot more likely to get into arguments and a lot less likely to be attacked by fashos. I also have a :gun-hubris: in case they come to my house.
It varies a lot depending on who you're talking to. Obviously AmeriKKKans' brains are very warped and propagandized, and most aren't going to react well to it, but that's far from universal. There was a poll a few years ago that said like 30-something percent of Millennials support communism, for example. And the most recent Pew poll of Zoomers that I read showed that a majority are both opposed to capitalism and support socialism. Now what that really constitutes is going to vary, but IME people tend to be more receptive than a lot of people here are assuming or have experienced themselves. Demographics are important; age, class, and marginalization are each factors that influence attitudes towards radical politics. I don't generally bother with white, well-off boomer petty bourg, for example, and so I get a lot more cynicism or apathy than hostility.
I try to suss out how receptive someone might be before I decide how/whether to address anything political. Although I almost always start with "socialism" and only say "communism" down the line when they're already partly on board.